scholarly journals Estimation of high mountain weather and characteristics of local wind bora at Mounts Kusatsu-Shirane and Azumaya on 25-26 October, 2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Taichi MAKI
Keyword(s):  
High Mountain ◽  
Local Wind ◽  
Mountain Weather

Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1045-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandan Sarangi ◽  
Yun Qian ◽  
Karl Rittger ◽  
L. Ruby Leung ◽  
Duli Chand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
High Mountain

Focus on Thermokarst Lakes in Indian Himalaya: Inception and Implication under Warming Climate

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Pratima Pandey ◽  
S. Nawaz Ali ◽  
Vikram Sharma ◽  
Prashant K. Champati Ray
Keyword(s):  
Western Himalaya ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Thermokarst Lakes ◽  
Glacial Environments ◽  
Global Warming Scenario ◽  
Scientific Attention ◽  
Topographic Depressions ◽  
Permafrost Thawing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Thaw Lakes

Thermokarst (Thaw) lakes are landforms found in topographic depressions created by thawing ground ice in permafrost zones. They play an important role in the regulation of climatic functions. These lakes are a manifestation of warming surface temperatures that accelerates the ice-rich permafrost to degrade by creating marshy hollows/ponds. In the current global warming scenario, the thermokarst lakes in the high mountain regions (Himalaya) are expected to grow further. This accelerate permafrost thawing which will affect the carbon cycle, hydrology and local ecosystems. This phenomenon has attracted huge scientific attention because it has led to a rapid mass change of glaciers in the region, including extensive changes occurring on peri-glacial environments. The most striking fact is the release of an enormous amount of greenhouse gases, including methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide that is locked in these lakes. The present study delves into the thermokarst lakes in the upper reaches of Chandra Valley and Western Himalaya. The study also aims at designating the impact of their changes on the ecosystem, particularly their influence on the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Methow Beaver Project: the Challenges of an Ecosystem Services Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Philip Brick ◽  
Kent Woodruff
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Castor Canadensis ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Natural Resource Policy ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Climate Conditions

This case explores the Methow Beaver Project (MBP), an ambitious experiment to restore beaver (Castor canadensis) to a high mountain watershed in Washington State, USA. The Pacific Northwest is already experiencing weather regimes consistent with longer term climate projections, which predict longer and drier summers and stronger and wetter winter storms. Ironically, this combination makes imperative more water storage in one of the most heavily dammed regions in the nation. Although the positive role that beaver can play in watershed enhancement has been well known for decades, no project has previously attempted to re-introduce beaver on a watershed scale with a rigorous monitoring protocol designed to document improved water storage and temperature conditions needed for human uses and aquatic species. While the MBP has demonstrated that beaver can be re-introduced on a watershed scale, it has been much more difficult to scientifically demonstrate positive changes in water retention and stream temperature, given hydrologic complexity, unprecedented fire and floods, and the fact that beaver are highly mobile. This case study can help environmental studies students and natural resource policy professionals think about the broader challenges of diffuse, ecosystem services approaches to climate adaptation. Beaver-produced watershed improvements will remain difficult to quantify and verify, and thus will likely remain less attractive to water planners than conventional storage dams. But as climate conditions put additional pressure on such infrastructure, it is worth considering how beaver might be employed to augment watershed storage capacity, even if this capacity is likely to remain at least in part inscrutable.

Occurrence and habitat choice of waders in a high mountain sedimentation flat on Hardangervidda, South Norway

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (0) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Eivind Østbye ◽  
Torgrim Breiehagen ◽  
Ivar Mysterud ◽  
Kjartan Østbye
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Choice ◽  
High Mountain

Structure and dynamics of a high mountain wetland bird community in southern Norway: An 18-year study of waders and gulls

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (0) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eivind Østbye ◽  
Olav Hogstad ◽  
Kjartan Østbye ◽  
Leif Lien ◽  
Erik Framstad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bird Community ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Southern Norway
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